I’ve just completed day 1 of my PL/SQL workshop in Estonia. The first few minutes proved especially eventful!
When I did my workshop in Copenhagen, I had a lot of trouble with the projector. This morning I plugged the projector into my laptop and all was well. I even made a joke about how well it was going. Little did I know…
I started the presentation and the first demo hung! I don’t think I can fully describe the panic that sets in when something like that happens withing a couple of minutes of starting a 2 day workshop. It’s like a little piece of you dies. 🙂 I did a little messing around to try and get it working, but quickly realised I had to keep things going or it was going to get really boring, really quickly, so I just rebooted the virtual machine.
Lookily, wiser men than me (Andrew Clarke and Mark Rittman) had warned me long ago about the dangers of live demos, so I always carry a backup plan. I had text representations and screen shots of the expected output from the demos, so I used those while I waited for the VM to restart. After a little while the VM was up again and was working fine, so with more than a small sigh of relief, things were back on track.
I wonder what fate will throw at me tomorrow. What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, or gives you a heart attack…
You gotta laugh…
Cheers
Tim…
Hi Tim,
>> I started the presentation and the first demo hung!
Did you see it when Ellison had a demo hang, live at OOW? Ouch!
>> “there will also be concerns that the immigration database will be a potential goldmine for ID thieves.”
Must not be an Oracle database, eh?